What have we done to the land?!😵‍💫Episode 4

hi welcome to another Sam's over there another video for the week and I have to say I'm a bit embarrassed about this one because we've done something and I'm hating it but apparently it's a necessity also everyone's telling me but that more on that later but right now yeah we'll show you what happened to us this week that was a mistake has been our proper stock we've traveled all over Europe not been stuck properly apart from Albania and then we come to Ireland and we get stuck you don't know if you can see but yeah it's right in there [Music] I think you can see the lean the lean on the van so if we have today we've tried everything so now last resort we're gonna winch it against a tree because luckily our neighbor has a chain winch I'm gonna put it onto the hook and eye ah Navy used to be a fireman yeah he's quite used to this good job he's got that I think yeah he's got some proper cranking gear here we're gonna try and hand crank it out around some trees on the Chain off the eye while I give it a burn the clutch out yeah but we've been stuck now for how long an hour well try it but yeah kids are being crazy in the back yeah so I've got a right lean on it now hasn't it it's the worst the worst stuff I've ever been Albania didn't we yeah I just said that Albania was the only other time we've been stuck we were lucky to get out alive this is insane look at Princess Peaches you know here we go forward and then straighten up towards the Wheel by it and straight just so that you can reverse back into the camera woman uh not by choice let's do it do it oh you got this man that is how was that my guy didn't like it I'm a bad driver than Daddy I got the worst cough in the world I did the rocking like this because that is too heavy on the clutch is Rebecca doesn't understand but this is like the scene out of Rocky 4. remember Rocky that didn't happen though Russian the Russian was doing it in the gym and Rocky was like wow bye this is Gabriel and he knew the guy that used to live here called Victor and he's just told us that he built this car that's in here and this this bit was this pigs at the end yeah the pigs were at the end and then the other doorway was there you build that Barrel yes that was a dwarf yeah a bit tough right for the four year no yeah so you're in a lovely quiet area here yeah and there's not too many left when it was going to national school there was 59 people in this town learning Quran today there's only three left plus two There is five and yourselves is Main yeah it's very small now here isn't it it's a very small little it's like a hamlet I'd say isn't it yeah well 12 old people around here tough old people around the kids when when we've grown up the kids will they'll take this over they'll well we hope hopefully it'll yeah man what do you call him it's Ewan what Ewan you were yeah you regret to let you one but that's the Scottish way we changed it to the Irish way so it's EU oh great boy you're a terrific boy made this yeah years ago Gabriel they just saw it in the in the in the bath and he said that he built that yeah for Victor and the wheels over there what were they for what was it called again a bogey or drawn in here we're drawing in the house it was a a windshield and just about to call the Cocker here you'd put a chair and roll with a leave for a job yeah there's a lot of the old tools are still in there around the back yeah oh we found the site you should turn the side see where was it if you put it back in there we're finding also it's amazing what you dig up you know things that I've forgotten about I guess Oh indeed everybody yeah they've made that no sickness yeah please yeah we have a we have petrol streamers now back in the day before the morning machine came off people used to more tomatoes with them yeah oh I don't know what about hard work I'm feeling it we're feeling it we've already been here a week and we're already like aching just from cleaning and removing all lots of work on some lots of work on it it's a Hardy Boy I'll just keep adding me every day every day you are a grafter aren't you really that's all I've ever done yeah I work with my hands all the time Rebecca's good on computers I'm not I can work with my hands I can put your roof on and fit your kitchen and and do this stuff hey welcome to hardware store and more years ago I ran before the falconers came out Bring together to say to me come on Gabby we used to lift the steadily range up on the lorry for years we've done that we had to do what was two brothers that's the is that the race I'm strong the Stanley's the Stanley yeah so we want to get one Stanley or Rayburn or something inside that's how we're going to get hot water and we're going to cook and we're gonna have the radiators with the old ray-burn sure yeah did he have one in this house then was that what was in there no there was no range there it was an open fire just an open fire yeah yeah because just one big fire in there then an open fire yeah yeah hopefully that'll heat the house in there keep us all warm yeah lots of things that we've got to do and maybe some wind and solar for the electric so there was cattle and they had um cows over there in that Barn the boy you're to be tied with jeans there yeah on those posts no no in Sage inside that's the important what they call it a character Crush for putting the cattle through it for injecting them all right okay so that's what you were doing cheers yeah yeah yeah because we're gonna they're gonna have to come out then somehow have to cut them out they'll be indeed absolutely solid they've yeah they've never moved it was things were built to last back then no no blame Trump but he never did anything improvements therefore didn't improvements no no it's it needs a bit of love again doesn't it this place yeah yeah we're definitely gonna typical Bachelor electric characters USA allergic to characters you're allergic to girls we just didn't marry one it's a long story I'll tell you all about it here well we'll come around and have a have a have a cup of tea with you you're very welcome I need him to call to me we won't we won't we know where you live now you'll never get rid of us if I'm not there you'll understand if the car is there and there if the drawers give the door a belt you'd be very wet yeah that'd be lovely it has to get back Becky I'll come up with some of her food that's what you cook some good food some fake stews and stuff that's what neighbors are about yeah yeah well we'll be around oh they told me that a lovely copper but I said I'd be delighted to meet them and I'm impressed I'm impressed oh thank you it looked it looked different if you come again it'll look different yeah especially when that roof's on and you can have an official opening then yeah when you get it all done obviously we all done everything it doesn't look great well I'll come walk up the lane with you now yeah correct right I'll close the firewood on the goal here no sun right nice to meet you here it is the Digger you need to clear all that so we get stuff to come get some gravel put down all around the building so we can actually work on it without being in the swamp some drainage putting in as well so he's gonna hopefully be here for two or three days it's gonna cost us a fair bit like but yeah needs to be done because already it's been raining quite a bit and they're just full of water and then here's what we were working on Sam's been digging out in there Barn they're so ready for all the um our stuff and uh yeah a bit of a workshop so he's done quite a bit sorry Stones dig out grab around that and around there's a bit of the barn rest of the barn on the back of it so yeah we got rid of quite a lot of overgrowth and these corrugated tin lean twos are gonna have to come out because they're unsafe done in between the rain showers but absolutely loving it here cannot tell you it's the best feeling to wake up here I've never I've never slept so well kids are playing in the makeshift pond kids they're excited for the static caravan coming I've been begging begging for a bed you want to decorate a bedroom don't you that's your brother and what's your response to that excited for your bedroom feel shy because it's on camera but I think it's a yes see it we're all funny today in a experienced driver is there you did all the land around here and you know a lot here as well and over the other side so it's going to be uh interesting to see it I can't wait it's coming back in the morning at seven seven for me yeah we're not used to those types of early starts just dropped his gear off we've just shown him what we need to have done and then he'll be going off for his dinner yeah we're gonna park now oh bound it's a bit Misty this morning it's the mountain top so [Music] yeah I got the radio on still got the radio radio we're looking there's the music in the background it's very noisy because the diggers go in we've pulled the lean two down on the barn and then it just left kind of the water tank and the trough that we're gonna leave because we're not really sure what we're gonna do with that yet so any suggestions are welcome um so yeah you don't mess about does he Tom doesn't mess about it looks really weird over there it's great it's very much like a bar and Wasteland right now because he's scraping it all back and I feel kind of bad no I don't feel pain gets in the yard here and then uh it's all flat and then put some Stone down and I think how much it's gonna look a bit clinical at first because of I love the the rusticness of it and with the grass everywhere but it's not practical I know that I know plenty of grass up there to be all rusty yeah now I know we've got the fields but it's just a shame oh let's look at it like this hopefully it's a bit Misty at the moment Misty Mountains but it's very messy it clears then I can I'll get my drone up and I'm gonna try and fly it let's try and fly it underneath the arm of the Digger get some super panning shots but we'll see it's no good in this mist and this light rain it'll uh the yeah so yeah we've it's been quite a lot of graft moving this there was an outbuilding here and then behind it there was the other bit wasn't it there was two lean twos getting gonna get him to tap them with the machine yeah this is where the balls would come on the the cows they trapped the cows down there aren't they for trap them and then branding frustration injections all those things it's very narrow isn't it and let them out the gate at the end there so we need to kind of um get these out because they're well in good for the scrap man what a massive pile of scrap we've got some good and most of it but the problem we've got is when we've been digging it all out it's now like a buddy Quagmire I mean that's deep there let's have a look I can't even go in it I've only got water boots [Music] you can see it's deep so hopefully he's gonna dig some training drainage out for us to get it we've already got a land trained well a big v-cut in the ground there for the for the land but he's just going to connect a little Channel there and then we can uh we can drain this off and that can stay I'll uh I'll turn that into like a French drain but a big one and this huge manure pile that's here because these are just perfect straight out the barn here has to go hopefully as well make it level oh God I'm sinking in the mud oh and the next job today I guess taking this down isn't it yeah we'll keep ripping the air guys be careful it can collapse on your head foreign [Music] keeping the old concrete you see because I'm going to build a stone wall across here there'll be concrete cutting you can throw the old bits of concrete in as well with with the new concrete so duper button you've never built a stone wall before but we shall see how it comes out but that's not yet dangerous that's across the land there to make a break between the house and the on the land what thinking too far ahead yeah for the animals that we're getting is that right yeah well especially if there's some kind of weird animal in there a gold some at least he can't I've Got My Mind on goats [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] got a bit of patching up to do fill in the holes like this yeah I'm in bed all of it pointed it's the only thing we can work on at the moment because we can't touch the house then we can render it tell the grant people have been and said yes or not yes or no yay or nay gotta can't even say it right um yeah so we've cleared round the barn we've got to get that well it's dead no it's cut off Ivy off because yeah I start to die soon so yeah so we've caught there at the base and it'll die off and hopefully it'll be easier to pull it off without risking pulling down the whole bloody Barn just need a ladder just need a ladder yeah that's a hard thing isn't it being here it's like we've got all these tools but we haven't got them with us because we're still in the motorhome basic tools but we got the big bad boy that's what's that's what's helped the uh the machine this is what's what I'm not enjoying so yeah the machine's been in It's not finished yet we're keeping the trees and the hedgerows but we have to scrape back because we've got all this Stone we can keep the shakes a bit of Labor of pulling it out Barrow by Barra and we can get it in because we do want to build a stone wall with traditional stone wall and we've got it all here you just need to take the effort to pull it out let's go through it and find what you want to keep I've kept a lot more today and I am saying um I've got I need to have not so much date heavy lift it's been heavy lifting now for eight days now I lose track of days nine days grafting from dance or Dusk and then the Digger comes in and takes it all down and we didn't even bother oh I did there's a lot of stuff I've done but it's um yeah I've been told off three different people now I have a day off otherwise I felt burnt out last night I was so tired I couldn't even listen to music in bed at night that's usually do I just went it was gone but I've probably had another three hours keep in bed this morning I had a lion this morning so we are not sure what we're gonna do today we're gonna Mark the pond out so in a mark I'm having a duck pond they're excited from a duck pond I'm in chickens and all those things so the Digger guy while he's here is going to dig out the her Duck Pond for us I might as well make use of his time um so I was really not happy about taking everything back but the problem with the land is it's full of like holes I mean it used to be a cattle farm and they had pigs so the ground is really uneven and we need to take it back really to do kind of a reset So the plan is to get it all cleared it's gonna look awful and I hate it right now and I really don't like the fact that obviously there's a lot of insects live in this and other animals but someone said to me you can't make an omelette without cracking some eggs so hopefully it will be back eventually to some kind of uh Meadow but a bit more controlled with less rushes and easier for us to manage that's the plan so we're gonna get some seed put it down as soon as we scraped it back it's a bit like a reset someone called it a land reset a land reset that's the plan although right now I'm not enjoying this part of the laundry set It's gotta be dumb yeah it's got to be done but it's just luck mud I mean at the minute it's not finished so it's not smoothed at all out I mean this is just dragged back well we'll do it like he's done over there but it does knee-deep like you you just couldn't you can't you need a Mulcher or you need to you need to come up with it but then The Mulch here will just trim it down it won't fill in all the holes and Russian well there's a lot of rushes um but I don't know yeah it feels kind of we're gonna speak to the Digger driver Tom not me no and see what he thinks um because we might leave this bit wild for now which is partly what I might do leave this field wild just dig out the duck pond maybe a path to it do it in the spring and then deal with it next year and see how it settles in but then the other field on the other side of the tree line there probably clear that back put the seed down and see how that does sort of touch rather trial than ever before commit to wiping out this gorgeous little habitat that's going on there and the beards are absolutely loving it today so we've had loads of swallows flying around because look at that they're having the best lives in there and all the mud but yeah I can't guys honestly it's painful for me to look at this because I just loved the green around this place I know it'll be back because we're not gonna do We're not gonna do what I see so many Irish new bills doing which is sort of concrete or cement all the way around the houses and I get why they do that but that's not kind of what we want we do want uh I always say I think of like something like the darling buds of me that I used to watch as a kid and I love that it inspires me so I want a bit of a world in this kind of garden Duck Pond chickens free roaming you know I've got this Vision in my head of all that and I know that this is part of the grand plan and I will get that eventually but it's very hard to go from having such a lovely grassy area albeit full of reeds and boggy bits and big roots that I used to nearly twist my ankle in so I know it's for the grace of God but Jesus it's not fun to look at this now but I've spoken to people who said yeah it looks horrible but it will be a good thing in the end and I just hope that's the case we will see that Sam stood in the middle of it all this is the other field now that was where we were just um just leveled this back off across this field that'll be enough just level it across and then clamp it down like he's done here like the courtyard there you can see how flat it is yes basically all this is going to get dragged right down to the bottom of the field and uh yeah it looked good then we can flatten it and Seed it so much stoned that I want yeah we're gonna Salvage what we can salvage aren't we and I'd love to salvage all the stone but it'd be a little bit like the sum get you through this mod so hence having a bit of the stone down as we can actually start turning it into a you know a home yeah we've got to have the stone down and otherwise no no vehicles can come deliveries I mean we've got to get up here I've got to get scaffolding around the building I've got to be able to take the roof off so I need a base to um you know the Stone's got to go down this this is a necessary part of the build a necessary evil It's gotta be done but it's not like we're destroying it we're we're gonna bring it all back and it's going to be great and we're very conscious of biodiversity and animals and yeah birds and we'll build the biggest bug hotels you've ever seen and we're gonna have the pond animals some animals not too many animals just to try and keep the the grass in check and yeah so we're not we're not trying to destroy the place we're trying to turn it into a home an Irish Homestead yeah that's the plan it's just living in this for a while is not much fun and and to be honest the mod is horrendous so the stone and we've got how many tons of stone have we got coming 200 ton of stone coming to hopefully mean that we can walk on this and I'm not slipping sliding everywhere because right now this feels to me worse than when we had the grass down but I'm reassured that apparently it's it's the right thing to do so I'm going with it trying to trust in the process and yes we have to deal with all the rubbish and the barn that we've gathered lots of things there that we've collected um and the wheels of the wagon they are epic and I think we might keep those and use them as some kind of feature on the farm and anything that we found of Interest I keep going don't throw that away don't throw it that way driving some mud I'm keeping all sorts of random stuff like shoes and like pots that are like completely useless I think they'll make great Planters so yeah I'm a bit of a nightmare for Sam really because I'm saying don't put anything up don't throw anything away last time I've checked it first because I like to keep bits of History around there's a few things here and also bottles glass bottles keeping those but here's a few things yes I'm aware it's a monkey old shoe horseshoe a random belt there's some bottles there we've got tons of others and what I forgot in here and that I found this thing can't really see it in the dark but I think it was used as a a chick incubator type thing for poultry it's got sliding glass left on one side but under the bits it's gone the lid lifts up so I did a bit of research and I think that's what it was used for but yeah we're in the main house now isn't it funny how things feel smaller oh a Candlestick didn't even know that I've been found candlestick I didn't even know there was that in the fireplace to hold your pots over the fire because Gabriel told us that it was an open fire in there they didn't have any kind of stove or anything sorry kids fingers now hang in there and in this cupboard as well as the side Sith that we found get that in there as well oh a little child's shoe does it looks bigger than the camera than it is but yeah there it is putting that through the shoe that's why I'm cutting the random things keeping them coming and we pull back a bit from the what the here because it was an old tin Tiff shed here so we've scraped that back and hoping to access it kept the tree in the middle um and when we need to also clear background here because it's right back to this far corner where you can just say it goes back so lots to still do but nothing's going to get done now till Monday um and hopefully next week when we show you what's going on they'll be stoned down and I might be feeling a little bit more happier with the land looking like it is fingers crossed and also next week static should be on as that's arriving Tuesday morning and the kids and the kids are super excited about that like that was all they care about when's the static coming that's all here because they're just desperate for their own bedrooms so we had to buy a three bedroom I've probably mentioned that because they really wanted their own bedrooms again which is fair enough they've had to live in close proximity to each other in the motorhome now for nearly a year after having their own bedrooms in a house so I can't blame them so that's the plan static next week Stone going down and hopefully it'll look a little bit less horrific as it does now and yeah so join us next week and we'll uh hopefully have a bit more of an update then see you later

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Length: 32min 5sec (1925 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 03 2023